FAN: Roger Goodell Suspensions

Since not everyone knows all the players ever suspended by Roger Goodell, I thought I would post them here. Some people said he had to suspend Roethlisberger or it would be racism. Hmmmm. Let's look at the data first.

Roethlisberger 4-6 games Never charged with a crime

Vick went to prison for 21 months and only served a 2 game suspension as he was re-instated for the third game of the season after being released.

Chris Henry 8 games - arrested 4 times in 3 states including drug charges and one felony gun possession.

Marshawn Lynch 3 games for pleading guilty to misdemeanor gun possession shortly after being nabbed for a hit-n-run.

Tank Johnson 8 games for probation violation of a weapons charge

Pac-Man Jones 16 and 4 games Brawl and shootings at strip bar and fight with body guard

Donte Stallworth 16 games for DUI Manslaughter

Larry Johnson 1 game for hocking loogey on female in a club

Brandon Marshall 3 games for DUI and arrest for domestic violence

Bryant McKinnie 4 games for aggravated battery, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest

Fabian Washington 1 game for domestic battery

Fred Evans 2 games after while on probation already, battery of a POLICE OFFICER

Jerramy Stevens 1 game for extreme DUI 3x limit

Odell Thurman 4 and 16 and then some for various substance abuse and assault charges.

I don't know about you, but I think the suspension was a bit much and I am planning on doing one last post about it. The guy who went to prison for 21 months got reinstated after missing 2 games when he got out. Also notice Ben is the only person suspended without being charged of anything. How it would have been racist to only give him 2 games is beyond me. I think 2 games would have been more in line when you read these other suspensions. Get yourself on probation and then physically assault a police officer gets you two weeks. Nice. Now, the people all fired up about Ben (and I am mad myself, trust me, but I want fairness) got their suspension. I would now like every one of them to comment on the fairness of 4-6 games based on the list above.

Donte Stallworth got drunk and killed somebody behind the wheel of a car and he got 16 games. Ben wasn't even charged with a crime and got 25-38% of that. Let's be honest, if he jumped out of the bushes with a hood on at night and absolutely raped somebody - I'm still not convinced the punishment for that should be 38% of killing somebody. The fact that no charges were brought and they were both hammered and we don't know for sure WHAT happened leads me to believe as a logical person that it did not equal 38% of killing somebody.

I would barely have batted an eye had it been 2 games. If it's 4, OK, Roger, you made your statement. If it's 6, I think it's unjust compared to the previous suspensions. In fact, he may have been a victim of being overpunished just so it didn't seem like racism since the word was brought into the discussion before Roger ruled.

First it was a huge debate over whether he would even be suspended or should he be suspended. I don't hear a lot of people saying this was too little or too much. I hope the intent was to always back it down to 4 but to come strong with the potential 6 out of the gate.

Liar, Liar, Pants On......

Well, Well, Well.....the plot thickens. Seems like the Pats have been taping defensive signals since 2000. Why didn't Goodell give up that information in September? Why does it take Arlen Freakin' Specter to get us that info? The more I hear about this, the more I think there is at minimum a small cover-up. Goodell was trying to protect the sanctity of the league. He's failing. How do we know it was just defensive signals? The other thing is - everyone thought Belimort's punishment was for the one incident against the Jets. If he's been doing it 16 times a year plus playoff games for 7 complete years, that's what, like 125 occurrences of breaking a cardinal rule of the NFL? Chrissy Twocoats, I smell something rotten in the state of Denmark, and it's not Tom Brady's Stetson.

Well Well Well

Roger seems to be Roger Dodger on this subject, does't he? The cCommissioner asked the Patriots about it and they denied it. Well, that's good enough for me! What percentage of prisoners in the clink would tell you they didn't do anything either? Here's what I think: I think there was an elaborate scheme and it was all documented and filed and when Goodell found it, he destroyed it so people would keep watching football and not be disgusted by it. If people thought there was espionage going on, they might tune out, so Roger dove on the grenade and will now keep defending his decision. What we need now is for a disgruntled ex-employee to come out and come out hard. Also, the idiots that say it only helps with teams they play twice are just that.....idiots. How many times do former coordinators become head coaches? How many times do they take their systems with them? Thank You! If they tape a guy one season and the next season he is a head coach in their division, the information becomes invaluable. I predict in the next year, we're going to learn a lot more about this. Go Giants!

Roger Goodell is Smart, Not Nice

I am totally sick and tired of hearing about Roger Goodell's decision to allow the Patriots / Giants game to be simulcast on two other networks. Every sports writer and television wonk is praising him and he's everywhere this week saying the fans deserved to see the game. Mule Fritters! Under the contract, the other networks had to show the same exact commercials that NFL Network was showing! Hello?! They had a commercial for NFL Network at every break - complete with new commercials poking fun at cable companies for not carrying the network and splashing their website iwantnflnetwork.com at the bottom of every self-promoting spot. So please, can we stop pretending this was done out of the Goodness of Goodell's heart? The networks slept with their own Lex Luther in my opinion - high ratings for one night but knowing they were promoting the NFL Network which is a direct competitor. I don't want to make the NFL out to be the bad guy either because from what I've read, they are offering the cable companies a slew of free 30 second spots on telecasts where they are free to keep the money that is generated from them. If the NFL feels like it has the best product out there - why shouldn't they be able to create their own network and make more money off of their games than what they get if they sell the rights to the game to another network? Isn't it the same thing as Firestone tires opening their own stores to make more money off of their tires than the percentage they get from Pep Boys when they resell them? If it's not - then somebody will have to explain the difference to me. They have a product and they want to develop their own method of distribution. Last time I checked, that was legal.